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Professor Tanya Monro

Federation Fellowship winner 2008.

Project : Light-matter interactions using optical fibres.

Current institution : The University of Adelaide .

Host institution : The University of Adelaide .

Primary research field : Optical physics.

Professor Monro is the inaugural Chair of Photonics and Director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics within the School of Chemistry and Physics at The University of Adelaide. She is one of the world's leading experts on optical fibre technology.

The aim of Professor Monro's research program is to develop a new platform for exploring and controlling interactions between light and matter using new classes of optical fibres made from ‘soft' glasses that will enable profound investigations into proteins and fundamental cell biology. The platform will lead to innovations in areas like medical research, environmental and defence science.

Professor Monro obtained her PhD in physics from The University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal and was then awarded an Eleanor Sophia Wood Travelling Fellowship. In 2000, she received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in the UK .

Professor Monro is a member of the South Australian Premier's Science & Research Council, a founding steering member of The Royal Institution of Australia, and Chair of The University of Adelaide Defence Committee. In 2007, she was awarded the Women in Physics Lecture by the Australian Institute of Physics and in 2006 a Bright Spark Award for Australia 's Top 10 Scientific Minds under 45 by Cosmos Magazine.